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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Styron's psychiatrist recommend to him about the hospital?
(a) To go to the hospital for treatment.
(b) To go to a hospital in Paris so no one would know.
(c) To avoid the hospital at all costs.
(d) To plan on staying for a year in the hospital.

2. What two things does Styron believe led to his depression?
(a) His physical illness and his anxiety.
(b) His mother's death and a hereditary factor through his father.
(c) His wife's infidelity and the loss of his job.
(d) Chemical dependence and illness.

3. What does he think about art therapy?
(a) Skeptical because of the teacher's overly effusive praise, but eventually likes it.
(b) Too difficult hard.
(c) He would rather write than paint or draw.
(d) A waste of time.

4. What is a probable reason that Styron's doctor or family don't suggest hospitalization for him?
(a) The social stigma and the fact that mental illness is not tangible or visible.
(b) He gets angry whenever they approach the subject.
(c) They don't think it would help him.
(d) They don't know he was that bad.

5. What happens to persons in physical pain that is not experienced with mental pain?
(a) Mental pain doesn't disable one as much as physical pain.
(b) Ones in physical pain receive medicine but don't get better.
(c) Depression hurts worse.
(d) A superhuman ability to endure physical pain for a time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Styron do about his physical disabilities?

2. From Job to Styron's day, he says artists and writers have been trying to do what?

3. For Styron, what do the black whirling stars of Van Gogh represent?

4. How did Lincoln attempt to vanquish death due to his own hand?

5. What does Styron say is the most important consideration in depression?

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